Comments on: $4 drugs killing local pharmacies? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/4-drugs-killing-local-pharmacies.html medical blog Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:19:02 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/10/4-drugs-killing-local-pharmacies.html/comment-page-1#comment-81325 Anonymous Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:57:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/10/4-drugs-killing-local-pharmacies.html#comment-81325 When I go by the pharmacist, they seem to be busy doing cholesterol testing, giving immunizations, doing procedures and testing that I can do in my office, for the same price.......and then leaving the patient with me to deal with the vaccine reaction or the cholesterol question (what do these numbers mean?) so I get to figure out the printout of their cholesterol tester, then explain the meaning of the numbers the pharmacist simply handed to the patient.<br/><br/>Now hey, if they want to do that, fine. Don't complain, though, if someone else decides to do their job for them and hand out the medicines. When I go by the pharmacist, they seem to be busy doing cholesterol testing, giving immunizations, doing procedures and testing that I can do in my office, for the same price…….and then leaving the patient with me to deal with the vaccine reaction or the cholesterol question (what do these numbers mean?) so I get to figure out the printout of their cholesterol tester, then explain the meaning of the numbers the pharmacist simply handed to the patient.

Now hey, if they want to do that, fine. Don’t complain, though, if someone else decides to do their job for them and hand out the medicines.

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